The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-24
GENERAL NEWS NOTES,
BUFFALO HOTEL BURNED.

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Thirty Persons Believed to Have Been Killed s1l
N Esssl Na1ser Injured, Several u Thsn
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The Richmond hotel and St. James hall
Buffalo, New York, were burned early on
the morning OF tho 18th inst. The loss ID
FULLY hall a million dollars. Many persons
we're killed and injured. The building ID
situated at Main and Eagle streets,
extending through to Washington street.
The fire was discovered at $3.50
o'clock in the new Richmond hotel.
Tho house contained q large mum.
bar OF guests. Ladders were raised as soon
as possible and as many as could wsra
taken out. A large number Of them wee
unable to effect their eecape. At 4 o'clock
other property in the block were doomed
to speedy destruction. The whole place
burned like finder. The guests found them
selves Imprisoned by walls OF fire. Tho
screams OF the unfortunate could be heard
Tor blocks, and at many OF the windowa
they could be seen in in their night clothes
calling loudly for help. At ono OF tho third
floor windows two guests we're seen BY the
crowd TO fall backwards into the flames.
THE VICTIMS.
As far 40 can be ascertained, the dead
Katie Kent. Minnie Kelly and Katie
Pierce. servants.
Wilson Purcell ii r. G. Dun 4 Co.
Mark Q.bofne, day clerk at the hotel.
A Mr.. Johnso ;, q Toronto railway man.
Nate Wolf, servant, OF Lockport.
The dying are:
Jacob Kahn, New York; Henry B. Rum.
sey, New York; Maggie Mulrach, Buffalo;
Mary Nolan, Buffalo, and Edward Whelan,
New burgh.
Seriously burned or injured-1. H. Finch,
scranton Pa; F. X. Moore, Cleveland,
Ohio; W. A. Haven, Helena, Mont; w.
G: Dubois, Syracuse; Mrs. Mann, Jennie
Mann. Buffalo; Millie Barsc, Orlean, N. ";
Mat Shannon, Charleston; Clinton Bid:
well. Minnie Weller. Mrs. Kate Pierce,
Nelly WEIGH, Ncttie Harvey, all Of Buffalo:
Harry Davis. George L. Michaels, both 'oi
New York, aud w. J. Mackay, Niagara
Falls.
Mr. Haven is chiefengineer OF the Hauser
railroad syndicate OF Montana. He ID
burned about the hands, feet and lace and
suffering from shock. A servant girl named
Walsh is believed also to be among the
dead. The walls OF the burned building
are y menace to life, and until they are
razed and the ruins cooled no search for
the bodies can be made. Its undoubtedly
Tact thas at least thirty persons persisted.
ESCAPE CUT OFF.
The rapidity of tho fire, cutting oil means
OF escape, led some persons to leap for life
from tho windows. Others got down tho fire
escapes or on ladders raised by the fire de:
partlnent. One man, mad with terror, leap.
ed from third story window and was
picked up from the stone sidewalk en-
Main street a mangled and bleeding corpse.
Several who succeeded in making their
escape were badly injured and burned, and
some cf these will probably die.
Others escaped with slight injuries.
Robert Stafford, senior proprietor oil
the hotel, with his wife, occu pied room on
the second floor and had q narrow escape.
Terror overcame everybody, and even
those who escaped In safety were in many
cases FRUSTRATED. There were l25 persons
in the hotel, seventy OF whom were tt an
silent guests, eight boarders and the re.
mainder being porters and bell boys. the
families OF the proprietors and clerks.
Twenty-Five OF these were rescued from the
windows by the firemen, twenty-five are
at the hospitals and large number made
their escape by other means. The origin
OF the tire is not as yet known.